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From: nnguyen@fapse.unige.ch (NGUYEN Noel)
Subject: Re: French database
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In article 12604@dragon.dragon.psych, thomas@psy.ox.ac.uk (Michael Thomas) writes:
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>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to find out if there are any computerised databases of the 
>French language, preferably with frequency counts but not necessarily.
>Just a list of all existing French words would do fine. Can anyone help?
>

Alain Content, at the laboratory of experimental psychology at the University of
Brussels, has created a computerised lexical database for French called
BRULEX. This database has about 35000 entries, and includes data about
frequency, nb of graphemes, nb of phonemes, nb. of syllables, nb. of lexical
neighbours, position of the uniqueness point, etc., for each word.

You can get in touch with A. Content at the following address:

Laboratoire de psychologie experimentale
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
117 avenue Adolphe-Buyl
1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
e-mail: acontent@ulb.ac.be

Noel.

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